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Learn baker's math
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A sequence from weighing and baker's percentage through hydration, preferments, and dough temperature so a formula can be scaled and controlled.
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Flour is 100%. Everything else is a percentage of flour weight — including water, which is hydration 1. To hit a dough weight, use Dough yield to convert the percentages into grams. Autolyse is a mixing rest, not a new kind of math. Inoculation records how much culture you add in the same system.
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- Baker's Percentage — King Arthur Baking — Professional reference on baker's percent, hydration as liquid percent of flour, formula conversion factor, and overall percent with preferments.
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